With decades of screen credits, Rachel House has been a fixture on screens around Aotearoa and (increasingly in recent years) internationally. Now she is harnessing all that acting experience in service of a new challenge—as a first-time feature film director with The Mountain. With the film now making its way into the world after its world premiere in Taranaki last night, it’s a new feeling for House as a filmmaker as opposed to actor. “Oh yeah, really different,” she tells me. “I mean, I feel much more responsible. All the screenings that I’ve been to, I’ve always been incredibly nervous. And I think usually, as an actor, the worst part’s done after the first screening, and then you kind of relax and watch the rest of the film.”
